Employee Templates

Employee templates let you create a profile with a reusable set of assignments for an employee profile. This includes a team and primary role assignment and may also include other settings, like time zone, attributes, login authenticator, and so on.

When you create a new employee profile, you can load the template you need, make adjustments to the settings applied by the template as needed, and fill in details the template doesn't include.

Elizabeth Bennet, an administrator of the contact center for Classics, Inc., has been asked to create employee profiles for 50 newly hired remote agents: 20 in the Sales department and 30 in the Customer Support department. To save time, Elizabeth creates two employee templates: 

  • A template called SalesAgent that assigns the Sales Team, SalesAgent Primary Role, Can Be Recorded and Digital Engagement Attributes, and System Default Login Authenticator. She selects Ignore for the Time Zone field so that if she uses the template on an existing profile, the time zone information won't be overwritten. She leaves the other fields unspecified with the Ignore checkbox cleared because agents in her organization shouldn't have anything selected for those fields.
  • A template called CustomerSupportAgent that assigns the Support Team, SupportAgent Primary Role, Can Be Recorded and Digital Engagement Attributes, and System Default Login Authenticator. She selects Ignore for the Time Zone field so that if she uses the template on an existing profile, the time zone information won't be overwritten. She leaves the other fields unspecified with the Ignore checkbox cleared because agents in her organization shouldn't have anything selected for those fields.

For each employee profile, Elizabeth loads the template matching the agent's department. The correct team, role, attributes, and login authenticator are selected for the profile. She then enters the user's name, email address, and time zone. She then creates the profile and invites the employee to the platform.

Create Employee Template

Required PermissionsEmployee Templates Create/Edit

If you want to create several employees with similar assignments, you can save time by creating an employee template. This lets you assign a team, primary role, time zone, attributes, login authenticator, secondary roles, views, and WEM skills automatically to a new or existing employee profile when you load the template. Once the template is applied to the employee profile, you can make adjustments to those settings as needed.

  1. Click the app selector icon of app selector and select Admin.
  2. Go to Employee Templates.
  3. If you want to create a new template from a blank form, click Create Template. If you want to duplicate an existing template and make adjustments to it, locate the template you want to copy, click the Actions Icon: three dots stacked on top of each other. icon on the right side of the template's row, and select Duplicate.
  4. Give the template a unique Template Name. Assign a Team and specify the Primary Role. Make any other assignments as needed. If you plan to apply the employee template to existing employee profiles and there are fields in those profiles you do not want to overwrite, select the Ignore checkbox for those fields.

  5. When you're satisfied with your template settings, click Activate.

Apply Employee Template

Required permissions: Employees Create, Can Manage Passwords, Role Management User Assignment, Employee Templates Apply

You can apply an employee template to a new or existing employee profile. You may want to use the full instructions for creating new employees.

  1. Click the app selector icon of app selector and select Admin. Go to Employees.

  2. Click either Create Employee or a profile from the table to open a new or existing profile.

  3. Click Populate Template.

  4. Select the Employee Template you want to apply to the profile. Click Populate.

  5. Fill in any remaining fields required by the form or your organization. Use the full instructions as needed.

  6. Click Create to create a new profile but not invite the user yet, Create & Invite to create a new profile and invite the user to log in, or Save to save your changes to an existing profile.

Deactivate Employee Template

Required permissions: Employee Templates Delete

If you no longer want an employee template to be available for use, you can deactivate it.

  1. Click the app selector icon of app selector and select Admin.
  2. Go to Employee Templates.

  3. Scroll or search the table to locate the template you want to deactivate.

  4. Click the Actions Icon: three dots stacked on top of each other. icon on the right side of the template's row. Click Deactivate.